The Lucknow Sentinel, 1967-04-26, Page 171C
4.00 A Year 'In. 'Advance•
ra" To U.S.A.
L' UCKNOW, , ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, APRIL: 46th,
1967
S ng e. Copy. 'lOc •
24 Pages
'he test drilling of a .water well
'
the village ,of Lucknow onthe
illiam Lyons property south; of ..
cknow.District High School has -
d veryfavourable results.
:eeve,George Joynt told the
ntinel this week, that tests of
ter sent -to the ,Ontario Water.
sources Commission and .the'
itatio Department of "Health have
en analysed as A-1. The capaci=
of the well had earlier been •
;ured•'in test pumping . It is esti-
tted that the well will produce
proximately;'400:gallons of
iter per minute when the .8'"
sing is sunk. Reeve: Joynt said;
'his;w:ill,be the best well ever.
veloped• in Lucknow for both
our girls Get
hooinncial Honours
our district, girls received provini
1 honors: at the Bruce Count
- y
Homemakin C�ubsachieve:
l
nt• day held in Krn'cardine Dist -
t .High School, Saturday;'
articipating:'were 103 girls from.
ie:clubswith Miss Joan' Anderson;
ice County home economist- in
trge:
rovincial' honors' were*.awafded,
!nda ,Farrell' and Gloria Aitken;.
r sardine; Judy ,MacKay and
rinne McDonald
;aunty honors went to Leigh
inson,: Pat Arnold , .Joann Fair,
nd Holmes, ,and Dorothy Van
X
ers., all of Kincardine; Jean •'
ott,• Judy Hodge Brenda Farrell,
in Thompson and Jackie Johnston
(Of Ripley, and. Janice Hodgins;
dyrood
'resentations were made by Mrs.
m McCosh.; Ripley, a women's
;titute provincial• board•' member.
2omments were made by Miss:.
an Scott', supervisor,-junio ex•
nsion; Toronto,
rheme for the day was 'A World
Food' in Canada.".
Dpens Beauty Shop
In Dungannon
Marie`irooks•, daughter of Mr.
ad
Mrs-, Omar Brooks.of Lucknow,
ill open a hairdressing business:
Dungannon and will commence
ork there, next Wednesday , May
The new business .will be known •
Marie's Beauty Salon and Will
8 located ,nett to the post office.'
Marie has been employed in
ondon.
capaciry.and quality, It,, along.
with the present well at the park
on Havelock Street., should satisfy
the. future water needs" of Lucknow".
The ;Davidson. well drilling firm
of Wingham are presently pro
ceeding•with the sinkingof the, 8"
casing down to 140 feet. Future
work will a include. the_purchase Of
a pump and other necessary equip-
ment and the construction of a
pump house at the site ..The new.
well will run.. its supply of water
from its location on the Clyde
Street allowance north to,WillO'ugh-
by Street where it will connect
tip with.the' present `'water system';
Passes In Wingham
Mrs Austin.. Solomon, a . Lucknow
resident . passed away in Wingham
and District Hospital on F .iday ,
April= 21st.
Funeral': service was conducted at
the Johnstone and Son Funeral
Home, Lucknow on Monday,
April 24th, with interment at
Greenhill cemetery.
Breakin: At Glen
Walder Home
•
A further case of break and entry
occurred on Tuesday of`last week;
April 18th. at the home of Glen
Walden on the southern outskirts
of the .village on the. Lucknow
g
Dun annon road
Entry' was gained through. a .base:-
ment window and screen which
Mere. forced The thief . or .thieves
made their e`ntiy, between l0 a'. m
and 4 pw'm , during the. day Mr
and Mrs. Walden left on a :burin=
ess trip to London at 10 a . to .: and,
Lynda 'Walden arrived home •
from schoolabout p.,m . •
:The daring"pieee of day -fight
robbery' was of the nuisance type
Wit . files and ,records scattered
and lost'. Registration papers of `.
Glen's- Holstein:cattle mere'strew:n
and a couple lost. Other personal,
papers, records of the Lucknow
Curling Club. and miscellaneous " •
small items were dump,: J and -
strewn from a filing Cabinet. An
.unsuccessful attempt was made at. ,
forcing 'a safe in the office . . A rifle,
"was stolen with a second high .
powered rifle left at the rear of
:the home outside':;
'Lucknow' Police .Chief William,..,.
Nelson was summoned with Ont -
aria Provincial' Police called, in
because the Walden property is in
Ashfield Township and under their
jurisdiction: •
Centennial.Flowering Crab Tree To Be
Planted At point Clark By Two Societies
f approval is granted,' a Centenn-
1 Flowering Crab,.Tree will be
luted at the Point Clark Li ht -
use historical site. The planting.
11liea'
lotnt project .of the Ripley.
d Lucknow .Horticultural Societ-
r'he annual meeting of district••8 .
the Onta ' ' -
ria i-forticultural. Socet-
s was held last week at Chesle
free of these trees were donated .
district $ by the federal depart-
ent of a ric
Ql plant a`tree'in ymemory of the
late Clifford Epps of Clinton, •a
long time worker within the assoc-'
ration. Grey will' plant their tree.•
at Owen Sound', r, :
At the suggestion of Miss Ada •
Webster of Lucknow:, it was agreed
that Bruce would make the planting
at Point Clark and, apprgval:sis
presently being sought from the
Department of Northern Develop -
Mont and Indian Affairs in Ottawa,
Nheh Approval, is received
ley and Lucknow will proceed With
the planting tem& I'es,' �.
RIPLEY EX.cHANGE.
GOES • 'DIAL
D -Day for the Ripley Exchange of• '
the Huron arid the,
telephone •
System will be. Sunday morning,
May '7th •• at 3:01 a,. m . daylight
saving time at which time all phon-
es in the Huron and Kinloss Tele-
phone.System will be dial.
Conversion of the,Riple y exchange
to dial has been a $36.,009 project
with •the decision to :go;ahead on
the project made, about eighteen
months ago
The Huron and Kinloss:Municipal
Telephone.,Systeni was first'
organized in 1910 with they first.
calls made in 1911•. A -number of,;
years ago they purchased •the Dun-
gannon phone system and .now
cover a wide area Of primarily rural
users.,The Bervie exchange was the
first'to go dial in•1959 with the
Dungannon exchange 'receiving dial
seryice �n December of 1963. :With '
the conversion next,week; of Ripley'
'exchan e, • alrphones in the: H :and
K system Will: be dial operated_
Bervie will now •become part of the
Ripley. . exchange, which 'will have •
. g
about 96:0 custorners. The. Dungan-
non' exchange will serve about
540 customers.
The Bervie building will now ,be.'
used, jointly by Huron and.•Kinloss
.and Belie Telephone who`have ren-
ted 'spece fore ling distance, equip= ..
m ent .
Manual work on the skvitch over
was •started last May with most of
the 'outside .work being doneby
employees' of the Huron.and Kinloss
S stem. Contract:for'the new dial
building in Ripley was awarded' to.
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ew 7Rip.ley Dial Building
Smoke Damage in Main Street dire
A flash fire in the Luckno
w.,:
Barber Shop operated by. Harold:.
Ritchie and Gordon Fisher was
quickly; extinguished' but not be-•.
fore considerable smoke damage
had been don a .:
The outbreak :occurred; Wednesday
morning of last week. Hearing a
'cracklingnoise at the rear •of the •
barber shop; the owners •
investigated to find a fire burning
briskly'in some boxes op the floor
Of the storage area at the back '
with flameslicking up the walls
A door separates the barber shop
frorri the location of the fire and.
. no smell of smoke had'previously'
been noticed. .
Lucknow Fire Department was
summoned. The boxes ,.were .re-
moved andthe area wet down :with.
the'hose to catch ;the fire in time. .:
Considerable smoke damage :.'
resulted to clothing belonging,to.
Ashton's Lucknow .Ltd•: whichwas'
•
stored to the rear of the fire'areav'
Smoke also filtered through into •
the Ashton building which is ad-
{ jacent to the barber shop to the.
east
he-
east . "Lloyd'' Ashton is the .proprie•
for of the buildingin which the
,barber shop is located: Smoke also
filtered through to• the. Sepoy store
w:hich is immediately' to the ,west.
Daylight Saving
This Weekend.
This; -Sunday, April 30th, will
see the commencement. of Daylight
Saving: time Locally. Official
change over time: is 2 a .:m ' Sun-
day � mornin ' and. you are advised tc'
move. 7.
your clocks ahead:oneaour
before retiring Saturday night.
• " Number Plea'se'' G'a.Is W ll D sappear:
Come Sunday , May, 7th ,the '
phone operators at the Ripley ex, -
change of
x=chan.ge'of the Huron and 'Kinloss '
Telephone ,System stem will become.a.
T tip
thing of the' past. With the cones
version to dial operated phones on
that date'„ seven Ripley ladies will
become a victim ofthechanging `
times as their jobs will disappear.
The•,p rice ofp8ro cess sometimes
runs high, Ripley and.district•will
miss the "number please", .gals and
onl yy when theyone will it be.
are g'
realized the many little personal •
services' they perform in•'their
daily work,. Ina time of emergency
they
have 'invaluable ser-
vice,
and :in times of sorrow in the
community their personal know-
ledge of the people they .serve
makes their position more than just
"another'Job" -„ Showwrt standing., ,_
left to right.,"are Mrs; Bill. Scott,
z
Spare operator; Mrs .. Bert MacTa,v
ish , 10 years `service; Miss Lettie
Gawley, chief operator with 21
years 'service; Mrs. Iiette::l\•tacLeod ,.
seven, years serVice; standing, on:.
the right,.errs.`Doris'MacDonald
12 years service; seated at the
rear, Mrs.. Russell Brooks,. 4 years'
service; .seated, in the
foreground, Mrs. Steve Irwin,
years servicer •,
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